Jesse Jackson
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Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
Appearances
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
7.4
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
6.5
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Self (archive footage)
6.0
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Self
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self
8.0
University, Inc.
Self (Archive Footage)
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
6.0
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
6.9
A Man's Story
Self
The Soul of Stax
Self
7.5
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
5.6
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Self (archive footage)
4.0
Chicago at the Crossroad
Self
6.8
Uptight
Self (archive footage)
Ballou
8.0
Ballou
Himself
8.5
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
10.0
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
7.0
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
Operation Breadbasket
Self
Crashing the Party
Self
8.0
Michael Jackson Memorial
Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
7.0
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Self
7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
6.7
We Are Many
Self
7.4
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Self (archive Footage)
6.0
Loudmouth
Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
Self
7.2
4 Little Girls
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
A Matter of Respect
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
7.0
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
On Screen Narrator
3.5
South to Black Power
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
6.8
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
8.2
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Self
6.5
Save the Children
Self
6.8
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
7.2
Fantastic Lies
Himself (archive footage)
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
A Decade of Struggle
Self
6.7
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Self
7.4
Route One/USA
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Self
8.0
In Remembrance of Martin
Self
8.5
Decade
Self
8.0
Nationtime
Self
10.0
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Self (archive footage)
9.0
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
8.8
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
6.5
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Self
6.8
Last Party 2000
Self
9.0
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Himself
7.0
Bernie Blackout
Self (archive footage)
We Are Universal
We Are Universal
Dear Mister President
Dear Mister President
Self
7.7
LA 92
Self (archive footage)
The Day the Troubles Began
The Day the Troubles Began
Self
7.0
Wattstax
Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
Self
5.4
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
6.4
The Daily Show
Self
3.8
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
7.8
Robins
Self - Guest
5.3
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
1.0
Shut Up and Dribble
Self - Civil Rights Leader
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
6.9
Tanner '88
Himself (uncredited)
7.0
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
4.6
The Chris Rock Show
Self
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Cocky Locky (voice)
7.0
A Different World
Himself
7.5
Baseball
Various (voice)
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
7.5
Explained
Self (archive footage)
7.0
Dinah!
Self
Obama
Self
7.0
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
7.0
World in Action
10.0
Tanner on Tanner
Self
6.8
Not Necessarily the News
Self (archive footage)
9.0
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)